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Originally Posted by Donald Luicana
What are Palm Rats? We just moved from the North
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Those are rats that live in the Sylvester Palms usually. I've not seen one, but my neighbor across the street said he saw a rat run from my neighbor's Sylvester to my Sylvester. That's one of the most popular Palm Trees, I believe on my block there about 7 Sylvester's on a street of 13 CYVs.
What's even more scary is one of my neighbors trims his own Sylvester and was on a ladder up near the top and saw two eyes looking back at him. He thought it was a rat, but then realized the eyes were too big. It was a Bobcat and it fell out of the tree and passed him on the way down. He got off the ladder and in his villa backyard the Bobcat was up against the 7' villa wall around the yard, the only way out was to go past him. In one motion, the Bobcat scaled the wall and was gone. They're big and look for small animals, so do the coyotes. squirrels, rabbits, cats, small dogs, that's probably why he was in the tree, looking for a rat. Here's a Bobcat, photo taken atop a villa wall in the Village of Hillsborough. If you have a small pet, don't ever let it out thinking it's safe in your fenced yard, even with owners present, coyotes have grabbed small dogs.
